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What with marijuans being legal in Washington, I doubt you could put yourself through school selling it here.

Your choice:
Pot store like two blocks off campus.
Dave, down the hall.

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular

I am kinda glad my government doesn't fund people getting a PhD in anime.

Just saying... that doesn't seem like a great use of public funding.

I can think of a number of things your government funds that aren't great uses of it, but as it turns out I am not the dictator of what gets funded or not

If I managed to get a highly competitive scholarship based on my research and my academic merits, maybe there is value outside of whatever narrow fields of interest individuals decide are "worth" funding

Then I dropped out because whyyyyy do they let 18 year olds make decisions about going to college.

Aioua on June 2015

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

I am kinda glad my government doesn't fund people getting a PhD in anime.

Just saying... that doesn't seem like a great use of public funding.

I can think of a number of things your government funds that aren't great uses of it, but as it turns out I am not the dictator of what gets funded or not

If I managed to get a highly competitive scholarship based on my research and my academic merits, maybe there is value outside of whatever narrow fields of interest individuals decide are "worth" funding

look we have a lot of brown people to kill around the world and that's not cheap

we can't be all spending a couple tens of thousands of dollars on half a dozen phds every year

**Winner Softest and Most Comfy Hugs Award Summer 2018**

Blueberrywerewlf on the Sony Anime Games Box | BluberryWerewlf on the BroBone

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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular

A calorie is a measure of heat like a degree or a thermometer. To lose calories, just get very cold.

this is actually very true

the reason it doesn't work is the "calories" listed on food are actually kilocalories

so you have to get very very very cold for a very long time

This fact constantly galls me.

So much about energy measurement does so:

Why is everything in kilocalorie and kilojoules? Like, in Australia we have our dietary requirements expressed in kJ , but they are actually kkJ. F uuuu

Why do Americans use a metric measurement of energy?

Wait, you use kkJ? Your total dietary requirement is 8.3? That seems really weird.

No, my dietary requirement is 8,300kj, but it is actually 8,300kkj

wait

maybe i have confused myself

2000 kcals is 8300kj.

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular

I am kinda glad my government doesn't fund people getting a PhD in anime.

Just saying... that doesn't seem like a great use of public funding.

Nah, it's fine. Most PhD dissertations are equally "useless", and I include STEM stuff in that. It's more about the process of working rigorously, and in long-form, to create knowledge. That skill is valuable and highly transferrable, assuming the institution has standards. I'd rather we funded anime PhDs to students willing and able to get them over denying assistance to save money or to try to force people into more practical fields.

A calorie is a measure of heat like a degree or a thermometer. To lose calories, just get very cold.

this is actually very true

the reason it doesn't work is the "calories" listed on food are actually kilocalories

so you have to get very very very cold for a very long time

This fact constantly galls me.

So much about energy measurement does so:

Why is everything in kilocalorie and kilojoules? Like, in Australia we have our dietary requirements expressed in kJ , but they are actually kkJ. F uuuu

Why do Americans use a metric measurement of energy?

Wait, you use kkJ? Your total dietary requirement is 8.3? That seems really weird.

No, my dietary requirement is 8,300kj, but it is actually 8,300kkj

wait

maybe i have confused myself

8300 kJ is actually correct. 8300 kkJ is an incredible amount of energy to eat.

According to wolfram,

8.3 gigaJoules is 1/5 the yearly energy usage of the average American household.

life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies

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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular

I am kinda glad my government doesn't fund people getting a PhD in anime.

Just saying... that doesn't seem like a great use of public funding.

I can think of a number of things your government funds that aren't great uses of it, but as it turns out I am not the dictator of what gets funded or not

If I managed to get a highly competitive scholarship based on my research and my academic merits, maybe there is value outside of whatever narrow fields of interest individuals decide are "worth" funding

Or, it turns it that a whole lot of people would like the government to fund their anime studies rather than either paying for it themselves or study something with market value. I bet the competition to get that is fierce!

I don't mean to sound rude, but if you're going to lol America about your government paying you to get a PhD, I'm going to lol about what you're doing with it.

spool32 on June 2015

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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular

『四畳半神話大系』とは、直木賞を受賞した森見登美彦の小説をアニメ化し、2010
年に放送された作品である。本発表では、『四畳半神話大系』はアニメという視覚的
な媒体を通して、さまざまな技法を利用し、パラレルワールドが描かれていると指摘
する。また、視聴者が主人公とともにそのパラレルワールドをどのように受け入れる
のかを解説し、主人公のアイデンティティーの発見、周囲の人々との関係理解につい
て、パラレルワールドを用いて述べる。
Yojōhan shinwa taikei is a 2010 anime adaptation of the Naoki Award-winning novel of
the same name written by Morimi Tomihiko. This presentation will explain how the
concept of a parallel world is illustrated utilizing various techniques available in the
visual medium of anime. I will present the how both the protagonist and the audience
receives this parallel world, and analyze the protagonist’s identity discovery and his
developing understanding his relationship with the characters around him.

マンガの中の文字：表記の選択が示すもの The Language of Manga: Character Building through
the Visual Representation of Words
Mia Lewis (Stanford University)

漫画では漫画特有の文字表記を通し、物語が語られていると考えられる。そして、こ
れらの文字表記をいくつかのカテゴリーに分類することが可能だ。この発表では三つ
の表記方法を分析する。それはフォント、カタカナ、当て字という表記方法である。
このようなカテゴリーは金水敏が定義した「役割語」のように、漫画に登場する人物
の性格などを示す。それから、漫画の中の世界を創造する役割も果たす。そして、文
字の表記を変えることを通し、漫画の絵や吹き出しの構造も変容させる。日本の多く
の子供や青年がこのように日本特有の様々な文字の表記を巧みに使用する漫画を読
み、日本語の可能性を学んでいると考えられるのではなかろうか。
It is possible to change the visual representation of text in Japanese manga in many
ways it is not in English comics. These different visual representations can be divided
into multiple categories. In this presentation I will be focusing on the categories of font,
katakana and ateji (the pairing of two different words together through the use of a
reading gloss). Like yakuwarigo (role language), as defined by Kinsui Satoshi, these
different categories of visual expression help to identify and define the personality of
the characters speaking. At times they also work to build the world of the story. Beyond
this, on a visual level, the structure and appearance of the page and word balloons are
also changed by the visual representation of the text. It is therefore possible to
hypothesize that children who read these works at the same time as they are learning
Japanese are also learning a multitude of expressive nuances afforded to them by the
language.

if this strikes you as a subsidy on japanophilia... yeah, I mean, that's the point of throwing money at soft diplomacy, innit.